Somalia Journalists unlawful detention and targeted assassinations.

In marking International Human Rights Day 2021, the ASSOCIATED SOMALI JOURNALISTS ASOJ is deeply alarmed that human rights violations in the country remain deeply widespread and pervasive. This is particularly glaring when observing that media freedoms, including that most central of other fundamental…

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Somalia is a frontline country for climate change

Sunatimes.com - Somalia has been in ruins, in terms of physical and institutional structure, for the better part of past 30 years. The physical destruction, however, might have concealed a subtle but more precarious form of societal decay: environmental degradation and with that a near total dependency…

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Somalia: Auditor general noted that $17 million external support has not been channeled through the country's single treasury account.

Sunatimes.com -Auditor General Mohamed Ali alias Afgoi has exposed missing millions of dollars from key departments within the Federal Government of Somalia [FGS], in what could raise questions about government expenditures. In his report, Afgoi said 25 entities and three embassies have been audited.…

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Somalia: Why Farmajo fired Simon Mulongo "Vice President of the African Union".

The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (SRCC) for Somalia, Ambassador Francisco Caetano Jose Madeira, who is also a good promoter and friend to Somali former President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo of Somalia, is behind the expulsion of the Deputy Special Representative…

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MOST AFRICAN CHURCH LEADERS CONDEMN LGBTQ PRACTICE;

Sunatimes.com - …"signed a harsh anti-gay law that, in its original version, prescribed the death penalty for some homosexual acts…" In Ghana home to a diverse array of religions, leaders of major churches have united in denouncing homosexuality as a "perversion" and endorsing legislation…

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UGANDA President cautions Cabinet, "stop Corruption, it will kill the future of our Country"

Sunatimes.com - On Friday 29th October, President Yoweri Museveni has issued strict guidelines for members of Cabinet to follow and implement that will expeditiously steer the nation into a middle income country. "After the Corona I want our economy to grow very fast to 7 or 8 % converting Uganda…

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UGANDA: STOP EATING NILE PERCH –EXPORTERS.

Sunatimes.com - Fish exporters in the country have defended their call for Parliament to ratify a law banning the local consumption of Nile Perch, a delicacy to many Ugandans. While appearing before Parliament's Committee on Agriculture on Friday, the Uganda Fish Processors Exporters Association…

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Uganda's economy to fully reopen in January 2022 says President Museveni

Sunatimes.com - President Museveni has revealed that schools and the rest of the economy will be fully reopened in January 2022, urging Ugandans to flock the nearest health Centers for vaccination. He said that by the end of December 2021, the government will have received about 23 million doses of…

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FAMOUS MOUNTAIN GORRILA OF CONGO DIES AT 14 YEARS IN VIRUNGA PARK.

Sunatimes.com - Ndakasi, a mountain gorilla who famously posed for a selfie with her caretaker at Congo's Virunga National Park, has died at 14 after a long illness, the park said. "It is with heartfelt sadness that Virunga announces the death of beloved orphaned mountain gorilla, Ndakasi, who…

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SOMALIA: CRIMES COMMITTED BY FARMAJO - ICC Court

Sunatimes.com -Former Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo has been indicted by the International Criminal Court. Mr Farmajo has been charged with the following crimes during his presidency.

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Somalia's Attorney General "committed serious abuses"

Sunatimes.com - The Attorney General of the Federal Government of Somalia, Saleban Mohamed Mohamud, has secretly left Mogadishu and arrived in the tiny country of Djibouti a week ago to obtain a passport, government sources said.

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Opposition Members pin IMF on big lending to Uganda

Sunatimes.com - The Leader of the opposition in Parliament (LoP) Mathias Mpuuga has held discussions with the country representative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Izabela Karpowicz, and the donor agency's chief of mission, Amine Mati. The meeting, held under the auspices of the Parliamentary…

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Uganda: 3 arrested for trafficking 2-month-old baby at $5000 in Kampala

Sunatimes.com - The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) Kireka is holding three suspects on allegations of attempting to buy a two-month-old baby for a suspected South Sudanese trafficker in Kampala. The suspects are Gerald Akankwasa, a Wakiso based medical doctor, Kenneth Kayondo and Christine Nambi.…

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Somalia: First film Screen after 30 years in National Theatre

Sunatimes.com - Although Mogadishu was home to many cinema halls during its cultural heyday, with the national theater also hosting live concerts and plays, the seaside capital fell silent after civil war erupted in 1991 MOGADISHU: Somalia hosted its first screening of a movie in three decades under…

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Somalia:Officer Ikran Tahlil needs justice to be found either life or dead

Sunatimes.com - Women's rights groups and human rights groups have not commented on the abduction of the woman who was abducted by Somalia's intelligence chief, Mr Fahad Yasin.

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Turkey: Flow of Somali merchants

Sunatimes.com - Fourth, for the last two decades, Turkey realized tremendous economic successes and became an industry powerhouse. With the resurrection of relations between the two countries, Somali traders embarked to Turkey to import Turkish products.

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Somali diaspora happily chooses Turkey

Sunatimes.com - Dissatisfied with the living conditions in Western countries due to religious and cultural challenges as well as the legal and life obstacles faced in Gulf states, a lot of Somalis are in search of a location that respects their traditions and preferences.

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Somali diaspora flourishes in streets of Turkey.

Sunatimes.com - The Somali diaspora prefer to live in Turkey, particularly in Ankara and Istanbul, thanks to the 10 years of cooperation between Somalia and Turkey, a Muslim country that offers high living standards. Since the historical visit of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to Somalia on Aug. 19,…

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Elections with Farmajo in the Corridors of Power will Plunge Somalia into Unmanageable Disaster

Sunatimes.com - After two decades of repressive dictatorial regime ousted with bloody popular uprising in 1991, the Somali people has been longing for a visionary and competent leader – a "founding father"- passionately committed to establish a democratic state governed by the rule of law…

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Somalia:*SPEAKER MURSAL IN THE DARK*

Sunatimes.com - What is happening in #Somalia now is a tragic comedy and a symptom of the chronic ignorance and the lack of basic political understanding among those who are supposed to run the country. Instead, they are ruining it.

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